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On 9/10/18 10:56 PM, Kristian Fiskerstrand wrote: |
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> On 9/10/18 10:51 PM, Matt Turner wrote: |
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>> Consider again the bug that started this. The maintainer had not built |
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>> this configuration. None of the arch teams had built this |
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>> configuration until I did for the last architecture Cc'd. The patch |
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>> committed doesn't change anything installed on the system, if not for |
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>> Werror preventing the code from building. |
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> one way to look at it though, is that it is a valuable upstream |
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> contribution that this configuration produces the error, so Gentoo is |
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> contributing to upstream development because of it. |
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Adding to this, that arch testing for stabilization didn't catch this |
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might say more about our stabilization procedures than the quality of |
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the upstream package (that in this case routinely includes patches to |
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fix these issues). And they are mostly cought in testing (~arch) |
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